Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Dodgy Sprint2 PCBs

Did I not mention there was a two inch hole where the audio amp had
burned through the board, after it had been hooked up to the wrong
voltages? ;-)

Remember too that this was in the mid-80's and no-one was archiving
ROMs - or at least saying they were. Long before the Internet and
MAME!

John ;-#)#

At 8:11 PM +0400 10/2/06, peter jones wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Robertson <pinball@telus.net>
>To: rasterlist@vectorlist.org
>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 07:41:24 -0700
>Subject: RE: RASTER: Re[2]: RASTER: Dodgy Sprint2 PCBs
>
>>
>> One can make a 2716 adapter, but it sure has a lot of jumpers! The
>> address and data line layouts are just strange on early Atari ROMs.
>>
>> I took a dead board and chopped off the CPU, etc, sections leaving
>> just the ROM area, then wired that to a 24 pin header that I could
>> read as a 2716 so I could archive the ROMs. Unlike Alex I never
>> bothered to make a PCB,
>
>disgusting act, i'm lost for any real words here.
>you wrecked a classic pcb to save stripping 24 wires!

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Received on Mon Oct 2 16:26:19 2006